Week of October 28th, 2012

Drawing will be held on Sunday, November 4th, 2012 and announced here.

How to win?

1) Follow this blog or subscribe via email. See upper right hand corner of blog to do so.2) Leave a comment under one or all posts this week for maximum chances. See HERE if you don't know how to leave a comment.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

This is Joy with today's crafty gift! Actually, though, this project was done by all the Christmas with the Cricut girls - Tammy, Melanie and myself! We decided to team up to complete today's project and alleviate some stress along the way!

The video below shows how to make the base of the paper bag album. It's really very easy and quite a fun project to do with kids. People love to look in the openings and find the tags also!

Now, for the nitty gritty details: Melanie made the gorgeous cover (AMAZING, as always) and her process of creating is to select papers and draw a sketch first. The scalloped rectangle on the cover is from Mini Monograms and was cut at 6". "Be" was also from Mini Monograms and was cut at 2 1/4". Golly and Jolly words are from Hello Kitty Font and cut at 1 1/4". Ribbon is from American Crafts and of course, the paper is from Cosmo Cricket, our paper sponsor this week.

Other cuts: The bell from Sweethearts was cut at 2 1/4" using the regular key, shadow and layers. The brown tags were cut at 4 3/4". The large tags were cut at 4 3/4"x5 3/4" and the file folder tabs were cut using a punch.

You girls are awesome! Love the album! I went shopping for the paper yesterday and didn't find it so I'll be ordering some. I did find some similar at Hobby Lobby so I'm hoping to create some cards today using your projects for inspiration. Thanks so much!Tina

Oh my goodness ... this book looks soooo easy ... and so cute too. I totally love the papers ... This lil project is really setting the Christmas mood for me and music page has even got me humming a lil tune ... Fa LaLa La La LaLaLa Laaa! You girls are so luck there isn't audio with this comment! Ü Ü ÜThanx for sharing another fun project!Hugz,♥Carol♥

Thank you for showing us an "oldie but goodie" because I have only been paper crafting for a few months and it's all new to me and I love it.I am loving your Christmas with Cricut also and can't wait to see what you girls have come up with everyday.

I love this I'm going to have a play later to see if I can alter it a little to sell for school fairI have some plain bag's but with a clear cellophane front which would I think work well for this project.......Not for every pocket but for one or two I think that they would look good Maybe if I lined the inside......Hmmmm this is why I love papercrafting you take one idea and put a twist on it to make it your own.

I love the bag books. Thanks for showing us. You girls work so hard on the blog, we definately appreciate it. Sharidennisv476@aol.comI still can't figure out where to sign up to win the free gypsy. HELP

This paper bag album is so cute. I've seen them before, but never wanted to make one. But, I really like yours. Maybe it is the white bags you used. I think I'm going to try this. Thanks for showing this album to us.

What a fun Christmas album!! I really like pockets on my mini albums and the ones on this one are nice and big. I have never used white paper bags before....I may have to pick up some and give this album a try. Thanks for the inspiration!!

I just love bag albums. This is an especially attractive one. I hadn't thought to buy these bags at Michaels for a bag project.I get the best excited responses when I show my mini-brown bag albums of the family. Not too much for someone to look at when you show off your kids. They just ooh- & ahhhh over the whole idea of inter-acting with the tags. Scrappin Grammy

My granddaughter loves to help make projects and this will be a fun one to work on with her. We try to make things for her classmates when we can. Halloween and Christmas are always fun for us. We can't wait to work on this project!

LinkWithin

Search This Blog

Loading...

About This Blog

We are a couple of Cricut lovers and bloggers who are excited to share our interest in the Cricut with others. We decided to do a blog devoted to Provo Craft's Cricut because people are always looking for great everyday Cricut ideas! We hope that by showing you some different things the cartridges can do, as well as some cuts you may have overlooked, that you are then able to be inspired to create some beautiful things.